What do we need to know in order to say how and when architecture became digital? Our focus is on projects produced in the 1980s and 1990s that used digital tools to explore new directions for architectural research and practice. Rather than making future projections, we look critically and archaeologically at the way digital technology has shaped architecture in a concrete way.

Projects by these architects were included in our exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation is a big part of the Archaeology of the Digital program overall; Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological reading of how digital tools were incorporated into architecture.